Unlike ball town bob, I also believe book knowledge is of huge value when accessing value of these old Winchesters.
Where did I say that? You need to work on your reading comprehension skill....
The book learning part is the easy part. Only experience gained by handling LOTS of guns will enable you to spot bad guns and there's plenty of them out there...and it takes time to gain that experience along with a good mentor...
When someone says, "the book learning part is the easy part", they are full of chit, reading comprehension difficulties or otherwise. There is so much information listed in the 2 books that I mentioned earlier in this thread, it will make
your head spin. Of course, you can probably re-cite Rules book word for word and know the Red book of Winchester values like the back of your hand don't you???
